Sharing article about GLAM and datasets

[Santiago M]

Hi all, 

Wanted to share an article we recently published for Mozilla Data Collective.

Cultural Heritage and AI: How Institutions Can Reclaim Control of Their Data

The institutions that safeguard humanity's cultural memory, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (collectively known as the GLAM sector) are confronting a paradox that defines the current moment in AI development. Years of careful digitization of their archives have transformed physical collections into vast, machine-readable repositories of human knowledge. Yet the very openness that would make these collections a gift to the public now exposes them to extraction, commodification, and misuse by the AI industry's insatiable demand for training data. The result is a fundamental question of data governance: How can GLAM institutions maintain sustainable sovereignty over the datasets they are mandated to steward with care, while staying true to their mission of sharing the world's knowledge with the public?

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